Newly declassified JFK files reveal Lyndon B. Johnson was in the KKK

[CrusaderFrank]

You get your history that has been rewritten, omitting facts that are pertinent to what he really did, and would thoroughly change your opinion.
I’m a Texan, born and bred, as well as those before me. If you truly seek the truth, you can find it. It is on the net today, written as it truly was back then. LBJ was a racist, to his core.

Your history lessons have been decent obviously, as what you said is a farce. He continually refused to choose a Black to sit on nya, when instructed.

I get my history lessons from historians; I realize theirs doesn't ever match the lessons from spammers and hacks, but then I don't care. about those nor the opinions of those whose cite them. It was LBJ who got blacks into the NYA programs in the first place, so your sniveling doesn't count for much, considering the politics of the 1930's, and that had to be done quietly to be done at all, and done at considerable political risk to a man who is allegedly only out for himself.

JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)

"To be shot at by the whites and dodged by the negroes": Lyndon Johnson and the Texas NYA. - Free Online Library

LBJ was both a racist- and also the President who did more for Civil Rights than any President since Lincoln.

By holding up in the Senate for 7 year an identical Civil Rights Bill put forth by Ike, a bill LBJ called the, "Ngger Bill"

Actually he didn't bother with trying to pass a bill that wasn't going to pass; he knew what the vote would be on nay given bill coming out of committee would be at any time. He wasn't stupid enough to waste favors and cred by falling on his sword over futile acts.

And, he never said 'The ****** Bill' or anything of the sort elsewhere, either. 'Colored' was the term for his education and upbringing. That myth is also just another fake history claim like the one in the OP.

He said ****** more frequently that a Sunday preachers says Jesus. Oh wait, you're saying he said "colored" because he was a Republican? Right because the parties switched.

 

[Picaro]

You get your history that has been rewritten, omitting facts that are pertinent to what he really did, and would thoroughly change your opinion.
I’m a Texan, born and bred, as well as those before me. If you truly seek the truth, you can find it. It is on the net today, written as it truly was back then. LBJ was a racist, to his core.

I get my history lessons from historians; I realize theirs doesn't ever match the lessons from spammers and hacks, but then I don't care. about those nor the opinions of those whose cite them. It was LBJ who got blacks into the NYA programs in the first place, so your sniveling doesn't count for much, considering the politics of the 1930's, and that had to be done quietly to be done at all, and done at considerable political risk to a man who is allegedly only out for himself.

JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)

"To be shot at by the whites and dodged by the negroes": Lyndon Johnson and the Texas NYA. - Free Online Library

LBJ was both a racist- and also the President who did more for Civil Rights than any President since Lincoln.

By holding up in the Senate for 7 year an identical Civil Rights Bill put forth by Ike, a bill LBJ called the, "Ngger Bill"

Actually he didn't bother with trying to pass a bill that wasn't going to pass; he knew what the vote would be on nay given bill coming out of committee would be at any time. He wasn't stupid enough to waste favors and cred by falling on his sword over futile acts.

And, he never said 'The ****** Bill' or anything of the sort elsewhere, either. 'Colored' was the term for his education and upbringing. That myth is also just another fake history claim like the one in the OP.

He said ****** more frequently that a Sunday preachers says Jesus. Oh wait, you're saying he said "colored" because he was a Republican? Right because the parties switched.

Well, no, he didn't say that, much less 'frequently'. That's why you can never find any evidence he ever did.

 

[depotoo]

You get your history that has been rewritten, omitting facts that are pertinent to what he really did, and would thoroughly change your opinion.
I’m a Texan, born and bred, as well as those before me. If you truly seek the truth, you can find it. It is on the net today, written as it truly was back then. LBJ was a racist, to his core.

LBJ was both a racist- and also the President who did more for Civil Rights than any President since Lincoln.

By holding up in the Senate for 7 year an identical Civil Rights Bill put forth by Ike, a bill LBJ called the, "Ngger Bill"

Actually he didn't bother with trying to pass a bill that wasn't going to pass; he knew what the vote would be on nay given bill coming out of committee would be at any time. He wasn't stupid enough to waste favors and cred by falling on his sword over futile acts.

And, he never said 'The ****** Bill' or anything of the sort elsewhere, either. 'Colored' was the term for his education and upbringing. That myth is also just another fake history claim like the one in the OP.

He said ****** more frequently that a Sunday preachers says Jesus. Oh wait, you're saying he said "colored" because he was a Republican? Right because the parties switched.

Well, no, he didn't say that, much less 'frequently'. That's why you can never find any evidence he ever did.

Seriously? It was a well known fact.


Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist.
Lyndon Johnson said the word “******” a lot.

In Senate cloakrooms and staff meetings, Johnson was practically a connoisseur of the word. According to Johnson biographer Robert Caro, Johnson would calibrate his pronunciations by region, using “nigra” with some southern legislators and “negra” with others. Discussing civil rights legislation with men like Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, who committed most of his life to defending white supremacy, he’d simply call it “the ****** bill.”

Then in 1957, Johnson would help get the “****** bill” passed, known to most as the Civil Rights Act of 1957. With the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the segregationists would go to their graves knowing the cause they’d given their lives to had been betrayed, Frank Underwood style, by a man they believed to be one of their own. When Caro asked segregationist Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge how he felt when Johnson, signing the Civil Rights Act, said ”we shall overcome,” Talmadge said “sick.”



And back to my original post on the matter, you obviously failed, once again, to research what those Black 'colleges' were all about. I'll tell you the pertinent fact you do not hear in your studies. Those so-called colleges were for training Blacks how to better perform in their domestic services jobs, and get certification to get those jobs.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

JFK Files: Iconic Democrat President Was a KKK Member (Report)

Are you attempting to claim that Johnson still carried the same Klansman mentality when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Because if you want to run with that, it's going to look awfully bad standing next to this:



So stop with the lame revisionism, because it fails each and every factual investigation. A possible Klansman "during the early days of his political career"?
Yes, it's entirely possible because the Klan was that powerful. If you wanted to get anywhere in politics in Texas in the 1930's, you better join the Klan because if you weren't IN the Klan in Texas, you were outside of it.

As to the Klan's claim that they have documented proof from Ned Touchstone, then let's have it. If you want to hold up Ned and The Councilor as some bastion of the unvarnished truth and illuminate yourself as a fan of the White Citizens Council, by all means go ahead.
Citizens' Councils - Wikipedia

And the facts prove that The Southern Strategy turned ALL of those old Klansman segregationists and bigots in the South into Republicans because once Civil Rights was embraced by Democrats in the East, West and North, it was inevitable that "the Solid South" Dixiecrats were isolated and exposed for what they were.
Lyndon Baines Johnson did not run as a Dixiecrat OR as a "States Rights" candidate...EVER.
They had their OWN candidates, starting with Benjamin Travis Laney, Strom Thurmond, T. Coleman Andrews, Orval Faubus, John Kasper, George Wallace, and even John G. Schmitz.

You can yell and scream "It's a BANANA" as much as you want.


And we will continue carving up you revisionists and chopping off your fingers, one at a time.

 

[depotoo]

He did, whether you want to believe it or not. The attempt to rewrite history is by you. He knew it was a losing proposition to not pass civil rights at the time. He didn’t do it out of the kindness of his heart or some sudden revelation. He did it to keep his job.

JFK Files: Iconic Democrat President Was a KKK Member (Report)

Are you attempting to claim that Johnson still carried the same Klansman mentality when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Because if you want to run with that, it's going to look awfully bad standing next to this:



So stop with the lame revisionism, because it fails each and every factual investigation. A possible Klansman "during the early days of his political career"?
Yes, it's entirely possible because the Klan was that powerful. If you wanted to get anywhere in politics in Texas in the 1930's, you better join the Klan because if you weren't IN the Klan in Texas, you were outside of it.

As to the Klan's claim that they have documented proof from Ned Touchstone, then let's have it. If you want to hold up Ned and The Councilor as some bastion of the unvarnished truth and illuminate yourself as a fan of the White Citizens Council, by all means go ahead.
Citizens' Councils - Wikipedia

And the facts prove that The Southern Strategy turned ALL of those old Klansman segregationists and bigots in the South into Republicans because once Civil Rights was embraced by Democrats in the East, West and North, it was inevitable that "the Solid South" Dixiecrats were isolated and exposed for what they were.
Lyndon Baines Johnson did not run as a Dixiecrat OR as a "States Rights" candidate...EVER.
They had their OWN candidates, starting with Benjamin Travis Laney, Strom Thurmond, T. Coleman Andrews, Orval Faubus, John Kasper, George Wallace, and even John G. Schmitz.

You can yell and scream "It's a BANANA" as much as you want.


And we will continue carving up you revisionists and chopping off your fingers, one at a time.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

For the poor colonel angus I must try to explain that in 1964 the political platforms started to transpose so the dems became libs and rethuglians became rascists. And i though everybody knew LBJ was a klan man.

He WAS most likely a member of the Klan when he first got into Texas politics in the 1930's. If you have even the slightest idea of the RAW POWER of the Klan in the 1930's South, particularly in Texas, then you know that if you wanted to have a prayer in politics, you BETTER join the Klan because if you didn't, the Klan would make it known to all that you were "OUTSIDE of the Klan" and your political chances would be nil to NONE.

That's an awfully far cry from some re-goddam-diculous claim that LBJ was still a card carrying loyal Klansman when he entered the Oval Office or when he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

PRO TIP: Major political parties change their stripes ALL the time, and have done so numerous times throughout the history of this great country. In the 1950's Republicans were the liberals, and the Democrats were wrestling with their powerful plantation style Southern counterparts who were still locked into their bigoted segregationist pasts.
The tide began to turn in 1948, 1957 and by 1964 it was clear that the Democratic Party had begun to be a LIBERAL party. The Southern Strategy SEALED the stream of current events by turning ALL Southern States BRIGHT RED, Republican RED, that is.
The transformation was now COMPLETE.

Revisionists should be caught, carved up and EATEN.

 

[depotoo]

This sums it up-

LBJ reversed his position on race 180%, likely because he was a consumate politico who realized he was going to need the black vote, rather than any sense of brotherhood or equality. In Congress, LBJ repeatedly voted against legislation to protect black Americans from lynching. As a Senate leader he did his best to cripple the C.R.A. of 1957 managing to reduce it to an act of mere symbolism by taking out the enforcement provisions before sending it to Eisenhower. Dem colleague Strom Thurmond staged the longest filibuster in history up to that point, speaking for 24 hours in a failed attempt to block the bill.

In 1960 another C.R.A. was introduced to try to correct the LBJ deficiencies of the 1957 act, and Senate Democrats again staged a record-setting filibuster. In both cases, LBJ petitioned the northeastern Kennedy liberals to credit him for having seen to the law’s passage while at the same time boasting to southern Democrats that he had cut the legs out from under the legislation.

Johnson later explained it: “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days, and that’s a problem for us, since they’ve got something now they never had before: the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this — we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”

The opposition to civil rights was still somewhat prevalant in the Dem party at the time, excepting the northeastern liberal wing. They again filibustered the 64 C.R.A (for 57 days) and a (much) larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it. In the House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63 percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69 percent of the Democrats voted for it.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

This sums it up-

LBJ reversed his position on race 180%, likely because he was a consumate politico who realized he was going to need the black vote, rather than any sense of brotherhood or equality. In Congress, LBJ repeatedly voted against legislation to protect black Americans from lynching. As a Senate leader he did his best to cripple the C.R.A. of 1957 managing to reduce it to an act of mere symbolism by taking out the enforcement provisions before sending it to Eisenhower. Dem colleague Strom Thurmond staged the longest filibuster in history up to that point, speaking for 24 hours in a failed attempt to block the bill.

In 1960 another C.R.A. was introduced to try to correct the LBJ deficiencies of the 1957 act, and Senate Democrats again staged a record-setting filibuster. In both cases, LBJ petitioned the northeastern Kennedy liberals to credit him for having seen to the law’s passage while at the same time boasting to southern Democrats that he had cut the legs out from under the legislation.

Johnson later explained it: “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days, and that’s a problem for us, since they’ve got something now they never had before: the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this — we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”

The opposition to civil rights was still somewhat prevalant in the Dem party at the time, excepting the northeastern liberal wing. They again filibustered the 64 C.R.A (for 57 days) and a (much) larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it. In the House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63 percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69 percent of the Democrats voted for it.

Do you want to post a link to what you just wrote or do we have to find it for you and post the results here?
I get the impression that this might have been lifted from The National Review.
Am I right?

I can be here all day if you like.
We're going to take on the "Hitler was a liberal socialist" myth after we get through carving you up, so make some popcorn, folks!

 

[depotoo]

This sums it up-

LBJ reversed his position on race 180%, likely because he was a consumate politico who realized he was going to need the black vote, rather than any sense of brotherhood or equality. In Congress, LBJ repeatedly voted against legislation to protect black Americans from lynching. As a Senate leader he did his best to cripple the C.R.A. of 1957 managing to reduce it to an act of mere symbolism by taking out the enforcement provisions before sending it to Eisenhower. Dem colleague Strom Thurmond staged the longest filibuster in history up to that point, speaking for 24 hours in a failed attempt to block the bill.

In 1960 another C.R.A. was introduced to try to correct the LBJ deficiencies of the 1957 act, and Senate Democrats again staged a record-setting filibuster. In both cases, LBJ petitioned the northeastern Kennedy liberals to credit him for having seen to the law’s passage while at the same time boasting to southern Democrats that he had cut the legs out from under the legislation.

Johnson later explained it: “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days, and that’s a problem for us, since they’ve got something now they never had before: the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this — we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”

The opposition to civil rights was still somewhat prevalant in the Dem party at the time, excepting the northeastern liberal wing. They again filibustered the 64 C.R.A (for 57 days) and a (much) larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it. In the House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63 percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69 percent of the Democrats voted for it.

Do you want to post a link to what you just wrote or do we have to find it for you and post the results here?

I have no problem posting it, as it is all true. Research it yourself, dear.
I just happened to find it stated for me all in one statement so I didn’t have to take the time to find it all myself again. Now, if you really want me too, I’ll be more than happy to.
https://www.quora.com/Did-LBJ-reall...rs-when-passing-the-Great-Society-legislation

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I'm not going to attempt to portray Lyndon Johnson as some liberal race relations hero, and a brother to people of color.
I am well aware of LBJ's political underpinnings and his past.
Rather, I am out to destroy the myth that "liberals are the REAL racists" and other alt-Right shibboleths, which wither once they are exposed to the sunshine.

Race relations, like most other issues, are a complicated mess, and while no one liberal advocate can lay claim to a perfect race relations history, the major and concrete steps by which liberals proceed when advancing a liberal agenda is proof positive as evidenced by results.

It is these results that alt-Righties get anxious about, and it is the reason they invest so heavily in organs which can spew out propaganda, even enlisting help from their Russian counterparts when it is profitable to do so.

Stay tuned, we're also going to tackle Affirmative Action!

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Do you want to post a link to what you just wrote or do we have to find it for you and post the results here?

I have no problem posting it, as it is all true. Research it yourself, dear.
I just happened to find it stated for me all in one statement so I didn’t have to take the time to find it all myself again. Now, if you really want me too, I’ll be more than happy to.
https://www.quora.com/Did-LBJ-reall...rs-when-passing-the-Great-Society-legislation

Too late, I found it already and it wasn't QUORA, it WAS National Review:
The Party of Civil Rights

And I'm not your "dear", and you don't have a ghost of a chance as it is now,
even less if I DO my research...."dear".

Stop plagiarizing and claiming credit, and stop being a revisionist...while you still can.

 

[depotoo]

It has been repeated over and over through the years, by those that knew him! Geeesh. Even the liberal media outlets admit he used the word all the time!
Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist.

You get your history that has been rewritten, omitting facts that are pertinent to what he really did, and would thoroughly change your opinion.
I’m a Texan, born and bred, as well as those before me. If you truly seek the truth, you can find it. It is on the net today, written as it truly was back then. LBJ was a racist, to his core.

LBJ was both a racist- and also the President who did more for Civil Rights than any President since Lincoln.

By holding up in the Senate for 7 year an identical Civil Rights Bill put forth by Ike, a bill LBJ called the, "Ngger Bill"

Actually he didn't bother with trying to pass a bill that wasn't going to pass; he knew what the vote would be on nay given bill coming out of committee would be at any time. He wasn't stupid enough to waste favors and cred by falling on his sword over futile acts.

And, he never said 'The ****** Bill' or anything of the sort elsewhere, either. 'Colored' was the term for his education and upbringing. That myth is also just another fake history claim like the one in the OP.

He said ****** more frequently that a Sunday preachers says Jesus. Oh wait, you're saying he said "colored" because he was a Republican? Right because the parties switched.

Well, no, he didn't say that, much less 'frequently'. That's why you can never find any evidence he ever did.

 

[depotoo]

Wrong, dear, I gave you the link where I picked it up. Rather than dispute it, you try to say it came from somewhere else. If it was also there, so be it. Now, care to dispute it rather than where it came from?

I didn’t plagiarize. Guess you failed to note the dash, which normally means someone is quoting someone. I did not present it as mine. Did I fail to include the link? Yes, but when you mentioned it I immediately posted it.

Do you want to post a link to what you just wrote or do we have to find it for you and post the results here?

I have no problem posting it, as it is all true. Research it yourself, dear.
I just happened to find it stated for me all in one statement so I didn’t have to take the time to find it all myself again. Now, if you really want me too, I’ll be more than happy to.
https://www.quora.com/Did-LBJ-reall...rs-when-passing-the-Great-Society-legislation

Too late, I found it already and it wasn't QUORA, it WAS National Review:
The Party of Civil Rights

And I'm not your "dear", and you don't have a ghost of a chance as it is now,
even less if I DO my research...."dear".

Stop plagiarizing and claiming credit, and stop being a revisionist...while you still can.

 

[Syriusly]

It has been repeated over and over through the years, by those that knew him! Geeesh. Even the liberal media outlets admit he used the word all the time!
Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist.

LBJ was both a racist- and also the President who did more for Civil Rights than any President since Lincoln.

By holding up in the Senate for 7 year an identical Civil Rights Bill put forth by Ike, a bill LBJ called the, "Ngger Bill"

Actually he didn't bother with trying to pass a bill that wasn't going to pass; he knew what the vote would be on nay given bill coming out of committee would be at any time. He wasn't stupid enough to waste favors and cred by falling on his sword over futile acts.

And, he never said 'The ****** Bill' or anything of the sort elsewhere, either. 'Colored' was the term for his education and upbringing. That myth is also just another fake history claim like the one in the OP.

He said ****** more frequently that a Sunday preachers says Jesus. Oh wait, you're saying he said "colored" because he was a Republican? Right because the parties switched.

Well, no, he didn't say that, much less 'frequently'. That's why you can never find any evidence he ever did.

Yep- Johnson certainly used the word- good article to cite- as noted- he was a civil rights hero and also a racist.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Wrong, dear, I gave you the link where I picked it up. Rather than dispute it, you try to say it came from somewhere else. If it was also there, so be it. Now, care to dispute it rather than where it came from?

I already did, and I destroyed most of the rest of your revisionist fairy tale, too.
The original title of the thread and its attempted political thrust is a nothing-burger because almost EVERY SINGLE politician in the South had to kow tow to the Klan back in their heyday.

And it wasn't JUST "the northeastern liberal Kennedy wing" of the Democratic Party either. By the time Johnson had taken the Oath of Office, ALL Democrats EXCEPT for the old segregationist Southern Dems were disgusted with the state of race relations.
That's because by the time Johnson took office, Americans in the rest of the country had finally seen enough, particularly Democrats in the East, West and North.



You're not dealing with some "northeastern Kennedy liberal" here.
I lived IN MANSFIELD, TEXAS (seen pictured below) for TEN years.

The simple fact is, if it had just BEEN "the northeastern Kennedy wing of liberal Democrats" then there would have BEEN NO NEED for a "Southern Strategy" to turn all those old bigoted Southerners Republican in the first place.

The corn-pone revisionism you're trying to pass off as truth is not only adulterated with outright bullshit, it also commits the usual garden variety sin of omission, as if somehow the rest of the country shares your particular brand of amnesia when it comes to current events AND past events as well.
Well sorry, we don't.

Was Johnson a Klansman? So what if he was? Your mother and your daddy might have been one too, if they grew up during that time in the Deep South.
Were they?

 

[Syriusly]

This sums it up-

LBJ reversed his position on race 180%, likely because he was a consumate politico who realized he was going to need the black vote, rather than any sense of brotherhood or equality. In Congress, LBJ repeatedly voted against legislation to protect black Americans from lynching. As a Senate leader he did his best to cripple the C.R.A. of 1957 managing to reduce it to an act of mere symbolism by taking out the enforcement provisions before sending it to Eisenhower. Dem colleague Strom Thurmond staged the longest filibuster in history up to that point, speaking for 24 hours in a failed attempt to block the bill..

Actually LBJ never reversed his opinion on race- once he was in the position to do something about Civil Rights he did.

LBJ not only voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act- and helped push it through- he also voted for the 1960 Civil Rights Act- and then of course he did what Republicans hate him the most for.

He was responsible for the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The single most important Civil Rights legislature of the 20th century.
Proposed by JFK, and pushed through Congress by LBJ- despite opposition from the Dixiecrats.

And then of course LBJ followed that up with the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Republicans today cannot forgive him for that.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I’m a Texan, born and bred, as well as those before me.

---Wa'll shee-oot now doggie...!!!
Ah guess that thar done settled the whole cotton-pickin shootin match thar, don't it?

I lived in Texas from 2001 until 2012, most of it in the heart of the Texas segregationist movement, Mansfield.
Mansfield carries several distinctions.
Not only is it the place where the police and Klan hung and burned John Howard Griffin in effigy, not only is it the place where Tarrant County Sheriffs threatened to lynch young Negro schoolgirls for attempting to enter Mansfield High School
(oh sorry - "Maynz-fuld Hahh Skoo") it is also home to Larry Kilgore, the perennial secessionist candidate who wants to declare war on the Federal Government for a variety of reasons, one of which is the fact that he takes umbrage with federal meddling in "how we treats our negroes".

Twenty-five dollars says you don't even know who Griffin is without resorting to Google and twenty-five dollars more says you couldn't even find where he is buried, or tell anyone why he's buried where he wound up.

Don't think I am the least bit impressed by you being another yokel who says,
"I’m a Texan, born and bred, as well as those before me."

So the phuque what?
That just means you suckled on this claptrap fairy tale as a newborn infant, instead of becoming addicted to it later in life.

 

[Syriusly]

[Q
Was Johnson a Klansman? So what if he was? Your mother and your daddy might have been one too, if they grew up during that time in the Deep South.
Were they?

Was LBJ a klansman?

They don't care whether he was or he wasn't- all they care about is spreading slander against LBJ- they are still pissed off that he was instrumental in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Remember- virtually every Congressman from the South- including EVERY Republican- opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

But who did the GOP nominate to be their 1964 Presidential candidate? One of the few non-southern Senators who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act- to oppose

 

[depotoo]

Honey, I know all about Tx past racist history. My family, fought it.

I’m a Texan, born and bred, as well as those before me.

---Wa'll shee-oot now doggie...!!!
Ah guess that thar done settled the whole cotton-pickin shootin match thar, don't it?

I lived in Texas from 2001 until 2012, most of it in the heart of the Texas segregationist movement, Mansfield.
Mansfield carries several distinctions.
Not only is it the place where the police and Klan hung and burned John Howard Griffin in effigy, not only is it the place where Tarrant County Sheriffs threatened to lynch young Negro schoolgirls for attempting to enter Mansfield High School
(oh sorry - "Maynz-fuld Hahh Skoo") it is also home to Larry Kilgore, the perennial secessionist candidate who wants to declare war on the Federal Government for a variety of reasons, one of which is the fact that he takes umbrage with federal meddling in "how we treats our negroes".

Twenty-five dollars says you don't even know who Griffin is without resorting to Google and twenty-five dollars more says you couldn't even find where he is buried, or tell anyone why he's buried where he wound up.

Don't think I am the least bit impressed by you being another yokel who says,
"I’m a Texan, born and bred, as well as those before me."

So the phuque what?
That just means you suckled on this claptrap fairy tale as a newborn infant, instead of becoming addicted to it later in life.

 

[depotoo]

He did, when his power and future was at stake. He wanted to be president.


“These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again. [Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957]”

This sums it up-

LBJ reversed his position on race 180%, likely because he was a consumate politico who realized he was going to need the black vote, rather than any sense of brotherhood or equality. In Congress, LBJ repeatedly voted against legislation to protect black Americans from lynching. As a Senate leader he did his best to cripple the C.R.A. of 1957 managing to reduce it to an act of mere symbolism by taking out the enforcement provisions before sending it to Eisenhower. Dem colleague Strom Thurmond staged the longest filibuster in history up to that point, speaking for 24 hours in a failed attempt to block the bill..

Actually LBJ never reversed his opinion on race- once he was in the position to do something about Civil Rights he did.

LBJ not only voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act- and helped push it through- he also voted for the 1960 Civil Rights Act- and then of course he did what Republicans hate him the most for.

He was responsible for the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The single most important Civil Rights legislature of the 20th century.
Proposed by JFK, and pushed through Congress by LBJ- despite opposition from the Dixiecrats.

And then of course LBJ followed that up with the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Republicans today cannot forgive him for that.